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22,48 m² is pleased to present Quickening, a solo exhibition by Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion marking the artists’ third exhibition at the gallery. The show features six recent works and series developed since 2016.

"Post-internet, post-photography, post-human, ... Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion seem to metabolize all these "posts". By tearing apart the classic dualisms opposing organics and technology, real and virtual, human and animal, wild and domestic or even original and copy, the duo notes a cyborg reality, naturally and culturally hybrid, that has always already occurred but nevertheless keeps increasing its potentialities with the development of technosciences. Quickening thus implements several zones of indistinction between a priori antinomic poles. [...]" (Sarah Ihler-Meyer)

Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion (born 1984 and 1982, France) are graduated from ENSA Nancy and ESA Aix-en-Provence; they integrated the ENSAD Lab in Paris (2007-2009) where they began their collaboration. Their work has been the recipient of the Arte Laguna Prize (Italy) and the Contemporary Talent Prize of the Fondation François Schneider (France). It was included in the 5th Moscow Biennale for Young Art, the 5th ADIAF Triennale and numerous exhibitions and screenings including at Daegu Art Museum; OCAT Shenzhen; Untitled Miami Beach; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rijeka; Telecom Italia Future Centre, Venice; Art Brussels; MAIF Social Club and Centquatre, Paris; Cité de la céramique, Sèvres; Vasaraly Foundation, Aix-en-Provence.